README

Erlang/OTP December 8, 2011
Release of Erlang 5.9/OTP R15B
1. GENERAL
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1.1 Installation Guide
The installation guide can be found in
<inst-root>doc/installation_guide/users_guide.html
1.2 Java
The Java sources were compiled using Java version 1.5.
1.3 Disk space
An installation of Erlang/OTP needs approximately 300 MB of
disk space.
1.4 The package contains HTML documentation. You can also get this
documentation preformatted for printing in PDF format from
http://www.erlang.se/doc/
This site also contains HTML documentation for older releases
as a reference.
1.5 The Erlang system can run old BEAM files compiled with R11B-2
or later (and almost all BEAM files compiled with R11B-0 or
R11B-1). BEAM files from R10B or earlier are not supported.
To get the best performance, you should recompile your
application code with the R15B compiler.
2. NOTES ABOUT THE SOLARIS VERSION
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2.1 For the Sparc Solaris environment, Solaris10 (2.10) and above is
supported. The emulator runs on older Solaris 8 (2.8) versions
and above. Older Solaris versions are neither tested nor supported.
Also an Ultrasparc (sun4u architecture) is required.
3. NOTES ABOUT THE VXWORKS VERSION
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3.1 The platform VxWorks is discontinued in the sense that only the
libraries (erl_interface and ic's libraries) are supported. Running
the Erlang emulator on VxWorks might still possible but it's no longer
maintained. The VxWorks release is still packaged as a full release,
but no support will be available for anything but the communication libraries.
4 NOTES ABOUT THE LINUX VERSIONS
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4.1 The following linux distributions/version combinations are supported
and tested:
SuSE 10.1 x86, SuSE 10.1 x86_64, SuSE 11.0 x86, SuSE 11.0 x86_64
5. APPLICATIONS NOTES
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6. MORE INFORMATION
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Commercial customers please visit http://www.erlang.se to find
releases and more information. Commercial support is given through
support@erlang.ericsson.se.
Open source users please visit http://www.erlang.org and direct
problems to the open source community through the mailing list.